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Fernanda Maria de Almeida; Kristinn Hermannsson; Antônio Sérgio de Araújo Fernandes – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2024
This article aims to contribute to the debate on the role of the Quota Law regarding the potential social mobility of students with high socioeconomic adversity, using administrative data from a federal university in Brazil. We used Confirmatory Factor Analysis technique to construct an adversity index, composed of variables that may negatively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Social Mobility, College Students
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Villalobos, Cristóbal; Treviño, Ernesto; Wyman, Ignacio; Scheele, Judith – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
During the first decade of the 21st century, Latin America experienced an intense economic growth that increased access in the school system. In this context, the paper analyzes four different programs from Bolivia (Intercultural Community Indigenous Universities), Brazil (Quotas´ Law), Chile (Follow up and Effective Access to Higher Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Equal Education, Access to Education